Who’s behind the festival?<\/h4>\n

The Footsteps Festival was borne out of personal passion to support people who were trying to work out how to live well with pain. There was a group of us who started to coalesce around blogs, videos, questions and moments of connection around pain posts on Twitter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of us were wrestling with our own journeys to try to live better with the pain that we were experiencing and some had recovered (whatever that means to each!). Some of us were working with people in pain and learning or researching things that were clearly helping. But all of us felt were united in the sense that the information, research and tools were hard to find. We wanted to change that! And with Covid-19 making online tools much more prevalent, we launched the Footsteps Festival with a trial at the end of 2020 and a launch for 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

We recognise that the pain journey is personal and complex. We hope that the festival format can help you to find the sparks that shed light on what you are working with, and the Community to talk about it and get emotional support (because you are not alone).<\/span><\/p>\n

We also work constantly to balance and support both the patient voice and the clinician credibility to find real insights that genuinely support people. Hence, we are a very democratic team with everyone contributing from their view of the challenges. And we welcome all additional ideas and builds on how this festival can help – email us<\/a> with your ideas.
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We also want to thank Live Well with Pain<\/em> for hosting the Festival site until we were ready to go it alone, the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation<\/a> for their financial support and the PPA for their support both financial and practical. We’d also like to thank the many many supporters who have donated to our Just Giving fund<\/a>\u00a0over the years – without this we would be nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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